page_title: Via media
section_title: Anglicanism
hierarchical_section_title: Via media / Anglicanism
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context_page_description: Via media is a Latin phrase meaning "the middle road" and is a philosophical maxim for life which advocates moderation in all thoughts and actions.
  Originating from the Delphic Maxim nothing to excess and subsequent Ancient Greek philosophy where Aristotle taught moderation, urging his students to follow the middle road between extremes, the via media was the dominant philosophical precept by which Ancient Roman civilisation and society was organised.
context_section_description: The term via media is frequently claimed by Anglican proponents, though not without debate, as a term of apologetics. The idea of a middle way, between the Protestant traditions of Lutheranism and Reformed Christianity, as well as between the Roman Catholics and the Magisterial Reformers, goes back to early in the Protestant Reformation, when theologians such as Martin Bucer, Thomas Cranmer and Heinrich Bullinger advocated a religious solution in which secular authority would hold the ring in the religious dispute, and ensure political stability.
caption: Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch describes Thomas Cranmer as seeking to navigate a middle way between Zurich (Reformed Christianity) and Wittenberg (Lutheranism), though he remarks that the Church of England was ultimately closer to Reformed Christianity.[1]
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